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Bigotry is alive and well, just look at folks chiming in on the “immigration issue”, remember the “S” word folks? It’s being used all the time by right-wingers in the “discussion”. The reaction to what the lady said several decades ago does seem a bit extreme.

Any story that has any inclination of race in it always has plenty of biggotted right wing comments to follow it. I love it when they say how that they are not bigots but you can go find pictures from 100s of tea party rallies with racisest signs and disgusting commentary, repub senators who use racist name calling and one of the best examples was a female repblican group that was holding a rally during Pres Obama’s first election process and sent out invites to come help defeat him and they had pictures of watermellon and fried chicken on the invitations. When confronted they swore up and down that they didnt realize fried chicken and watermellon had racist overtones when connected with African Americans. Come on, if you are a racist and expouse racist views at least own up to them, freakin biggotted cowards…

I find it hard to imagine anyone that age from the South who hadn’t once used that word. If it did coincide with a bank robbery as she stated I can well see it. My mother used the word in reference to anyone who acted badly and the colour of their skin had no part of her meaning.I don’t think I’ve ever used it but since I’ve been around almost as long as Ms Deen and talked every day since I learned to, I can’t guarantee it. Oh yeah, I’ve spent all my time north of the Mason-Dixon.

There were certainly a few of us who criticized the Hilary Clinton supporters who started that, but I note (with a certain hilarity) that the original demand back in 2008 was the first and potentially only time that the far-right wing flocked to ally themselves with Clinton supporters as soon as the issue hit the press.

It can’t be ignored that it is the far-right who have kept this non-issue going.

And yes, Democrats used to be the party of racists. Decades ago when school integration was being pushed, though, the Republicans cleverly marketed themselves as being in favor of states’ rights – to be able to refuse integration. That was when the racists jumped ship and went Republican.

About Clay Bennett

A nominated finalist for the Pulitzer 6 times since 1999, Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett won the Prize in 2002. He has also earned just about every other editorial cartoon award there is, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the National Cartoonists Society Division Award for Best Editorial Cartoons. Bennett was also named Editorial Cartoonist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001.